Summary:
Later in the day, Mr.
Prasad claimed that over 5,000 illegal flex/banners had been removed by 2 p.m.
“The special drive to remove all illegal flex and banners will continue. Defending its enforcement record, the BBMP claimed to have removed over 94,000 illegal flex and banners in the city from 2014-15 to date. more-inBBMP officials were in a frenzy on Wednesday after High Court Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari gave them four hours to rid the city of illegal flex and banners. “If the BBMP can remove 5,000 banners in four hours, why did they not do it before?” said Mahalakshmi Parthasarathy, secretary, Citizen Action Forum. This galvanised the BBMP with Commissioner N.
Manjunath Prasad sending a message instructing the civic workforce to drop whatever they were doing and focus on removal of illegal banners..